State of termite

Termite is my favorite terminal, because:

• it’s simple and fast
• it works well with a tiling window manager
• it has a very cool feature: selection mode

The project has not been updated since June 2019 and uses a patched version of VTE, so it needed an update.

Update: Adrián Pérez now maintain an active fork: https://github.com/aperezdc/termite.

You can find it in the aur.

Cherry picking cool PR

Several pull request were interesting:

• Enable drag and drop text into termite from another program which I then upgraded to handle drag and drop of file to terminal.
• Add config option to set VTE word character exceptions
• Add blink string to the properties because why not ?
• Add smart_copy option. This one is really cool, because it allows to use CTRL + C and CTRL + V directly. CTRL + C only copy in the clipboard if a text is selected first.
• Require Control to be pressed to open URLs is another great one.

The result is available in my fork.

Building an up to date VTE

VTE-ng need to be built with 5 patches to enable the use of termite selection mode.

I made a fork and merged the five patches + another one to enable static build.

PKGBUILD